How Bad Has the Defense Been?

You had to skim, no way you could've read the whole post in the amount of time since I posted it :)

You forgot to mention Reggie Evans (who played about as many minutes through the first 20 games last year as Jrue has this year), and Theo Ratliff (who played 40 fewer minutes than Royal Ivey has so far this year).

Eddie Jordan said after practice yesterday that "Brand got better shots today, Dalembert got better shots today" in terms of what AI's impact was. I think he forgot to mention that they were being defended by Sixers, which means none of those "easier shots" are going to be there on game nights.

You might be right. One thing that might help is that one beat writer said that Jordan does have the tendency to be a bit arrogant. That is a similar thing to what was said during the JOB era. If that arrogance continues while the product continues to falter, that might lead to more critical articles, similar to what happened to O'Brien. Ironically, that team also got its head beat down from deep.

A couple of the national beat writers I have had past dialogues with have indicated they will be looking at the situation. The question is who will be the 1st mainstreamer to say it?

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from philly.com:

Jordan said he would let Iverson dictate when he needs to be taken out. He said that in his first time coaching Iverson, he wasn't going to take the guy out unless he called for a sub.
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So, AI will be winded and will conserve all of his energy for the offensive end of the court. Looking for 'D' stats not get any better any time soon with AI controlling his substitutions.

So this team has decided to basically habd the keys to a 34 year old vet... a few months after letting go a 33 year old Andre Miller?

Even a 500 record here on out ends up at 36-46 and no playoffs. Can we please just play the young guys (in their proper position), let the chips fall and maybe learn what the team has and needs? Maybe get the draft rights to a future superstar while we are at it?